Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-18
4 CRITICAL MOMENT.
The Irish Editor Takes His Departure
From Montreal for the Home of
the Governor General.
He is Met at the Station by an Immense
CroWd-The Police Thick as Flies,
But Not Needed
Twenty Thousand People Gather IN Queens
Park to Cheer and Hiss-Muoh Dis
order, but no RiOtiDg.
PREPARING TO REC EVE o'BR1EN.

PREPARING TO REC EVE 0'BRIEN.
TORONTO, ONT, May lit has been
decided to have Mr.. O'Brien deliver his
address from the same platform in
Queens Park that was occupied by the
Loyalist speakers on Saturday afternoon.
A large number of police have been Or
dered to report to preserve order. Large
deputations will be present from outside
places to welcome O'Brien, and process
sion will escort him to the Rossin house,
where an address will be read and q re-
ception held.
DEPARTURE FROM MONTREAL.
TORONTO, ONT, May 17.-Mr O'Brien
arrived in the city at II O'Clock to-day
from Montreal, by the Canadian Pacific
Railroad. Although the hour of setting
out from Montreal was very late, large
crowds accompanied him to the railway
station, cheering and waving their hats.
He stood on the rear platform of the
| sleeping car, surrounded by the special
correspondents of newspapers, and by
the time the tram made start his arm
was swollen from hand shaking. The
crowd sang, in excellent chorus, "For He
is Jolly Good Fellow" and "God Save
Ireland" in which C'Brien himself
lOIuGu1 ANU do Gals uONSO OuG 41OM
the platform he took off his
hat and exclaimed, "God prosper
you all! God save Ireland" Their
| the American PRESS" was the refrain
taken up and echoed and re-echoed until
| those in the car could hear no more. A
little later q lone man rushed across the
track, and looking defantly at O'Brien,
| oil n nn or
and then disappeared in the darkness.
"Poor fellow" remarked O'Brien, cit
| is good omen. Buckshot Forster
shouted in the same hurried way, NO
home rule but it was the last we ever
| head of him, for he died the next days
| That unknown mans voice is the first in
| favor of Lansdowne l have heard since l
came to Canada"
Fifty miles from here several Toronto
newspaper men boarded the train and
showed Mr.. O'Brien the morning papers,
Offering their opinions that their would
be no riot, though some disapproval
might be shown. This has certainly been
true SO far. Long before he reached the
depot passengers in outgoing trains and
groups ofpeOple in line along the tracks
on either side peered in anXiously with
anything but kind looks on their faces,
and would eXclaim, as they pointed with
what looked more like the finger of
scorn than curiosity, "that's him"
AT TORONTO.
At length the depot was reached at ex-
actly IL O'Clock. Before Mr.. O'Brien could
rise from his seat an immense crowd filed
the platform, blocked ell the passage
ways and overlooked into the cars. The
editor of the United Ireland was swept
from his seat and carried almost off his
feet into carriage which was in waiting.
The first man to shake him by the hand
was j. A. Mulligan, President of the
local branch of the National League. Mr..
Mulligan is the law partner of Sir John
Mcdonald. The crowd was made up of
most of the representative Irishmen in
town, and as they passed from the car to
the carriage at the station where the train
drew up the first manifestation of feeling
was shown. The roars sWelled higher
and higher in volume as Mr.. O'Brlen was
recognized, and the irish orator was also
greeted
WITH SOME COOS,
which, however, caused only ripple on
the surface. 1t has been remarked on
very much, this cooling. Slight Kisses
were heard now and again. The COOS
didn't seem to trouble Mr.. O'Brien bit,
however, and he passed into the carriage
with the members of the committee amid
files of policemen on foot and mounted
under command of the Inspector of the
ward. The policemen were supplied
with several rounds of ball cartridges,
and from under their belts polished bar
rels were cleaning. Six-shoOters popped
out in ominous readiness, but there has
L. g., &c. ThoD Dos
sin houseis only g few blocks away and
as the party drove there the crowd in
creased, and the enthusiasm grew greater.
The spacious rotunda of the hotel was g
mass of humanity. To reach his room
was impossible, to register was impos-
sible, so Mr.. O'Brien was hoisteG On the
shoulders of strong men and carried to
the broad stair case. There amid intense
excitement ne was presented with an ad-
dress by D. P. Cohill, secretary of the
local branch of the National League.
During Mr.. O'Briep's reply there were
frequent attempts at interruption by
several of the crowd cooling, but as be-
fore, the overwhelming majority were
O'BrieniteS and the cheers sounded like
chorus.
O'BRIEN's REPLY.
Mr.. O'Brien replied to the address as
follows, amid tremendous cheering: Mr..
Mulligan and gentlemen-I assure
you that not for the first time, for the
one hundred and fftieth time since came
to Canada, nv heart has been OVERLOOKING
with gratitude for the wonderful way in
which our fellow countrymen here in
Canada have stood by Kilbride and myself
in difficulty and trial. If We were to
live hundred years we could never
forget you for the way in which
you risked the dangers you had
to face in siding with US against
that great and powerful landlord,
who has evicted hundreds of poor
men, women and children, homeless
far away in Ireland in Lugga Curran.
Loud cheers, boots and groans.l
can't express my sense of the way IN
which our excited fellow countrymen
have behaved in this mission. Cheers
and grosns. If the London Times had
it's way it would be literally. treason